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\ APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 29' I917- Lm m Patented Sept. 10, 1918.

I X n 2 ginmrulnt HENRY LEMRN HENRY LEIMAN, or TAMPA, FLORIDA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. to, rats.

Application filed September 29, 1917 Serial No. 194,025.

To all 107mm it may concern: 1

Be 1t known that I, HENRY LEIMAN, a. citizen of the United States, residing at Tampa, in the county of Hillsborough and 7 State of Florida, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a'full, clear, and exact description of the inven tion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates topaper boxes and more particularly to paper boxes for containing cigars .or the like and especially to a lined box having an integral shell or outer member having a hingedly' connected lid.

Owing to the present expense involved in the construction of containers and especially cigar boxes of the elliptical or oval form, it is an important object of the present invention to provide a method and box construction whereby the latter is produced inexpensively entirely of paper. It is another object of the present invention to improve paper box construction in such a manner that the box may be formed with integral exterior shell or body portion, having integrally and foldably connected thereto a cover adapted to close down over a lining within a box.

With these and other objects in view as will be readily manifest to those skilled in the arts, one form of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings and described in the following specification, Which invention consists ofa paper box having a substantiallyintegral exterior shell or covering portion and a lining of less height or length than the unfolded blank shell. The invention further consists in the parts, construction and'in details of arrangements as more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings:v

Figure 1- is a perspective View showing the completed box with the cover sprung open.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the shell of the box showing the method of securing the top leaves and tongue and showing the sealing end adjacent thereto.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the shell of the box, and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the tubular lining.

The .box is preferably made of a sheet of cardboard of suitable proportions andthickness of a substantially rectangular form as illustrated in Fig. .3, the shell comprising a main body portion 2 which is adapted to be folded into substantially elliptical form as shown in'Figs. 1 and 2; The bottom and top ends of the shell are capable of being formed up by foldable flanges 55 and 66. The ends offlanges 55 and 6-6 respectively being about equal in length to their respective'intermediate flanges 5 and 6 at the top and bottom edges of the shell. The shell 2 is adapted to be folded intermediate its edges at the portions (1 and 'b, and the top and bottomedges of the shell at the ends of the narrow sides are shown as provided with a plurality of split tongues 77 and 88 and the shell 2 as folded may be bent in as at Fig. 2 and these tongues in conjunctionwith the flanges 5 and 6 when overlapped, and pasted together, respectively, form closures for the ends of the shell. Preferably the height or width of the flanges and the tongue is somewhat greater than the transverse thickness of the box, so that the flanges at the upper end and lower end of the box respectively overlap so that they may be pasted together as in Fig. 2.

The folded shell, may have its closed ends sealed as desired by end pieces 10 having a contour similar to the outline of the ends of the boxes to form a neat and attractive finish for the box. e

To strengthen the box and also to maintain in shape it-preferably is lined with a liner of paper or other suitable material, as shown at 1'1, Fig. 4, the length of this liner being substantially equal to the height of the shell 2 so as to extend from end to end of the box. 1

Some of the important features of my present invention are the provision of a hinged cover for the box and this I obtain preferably by splitting the shell along the line 13 at a suitable distance below the top end of the box, the slit 13 extending for a portion of its length, parallel to the end of the box and then inclining upwardly as at 13 at each side of the box and around the bend or corners at the sides of the box, the slit 13 terminating at its end in the plane of score line 14 which permits the lid of the box indicated at 15 to be turned or lifted upwardly along the score line 14; to permit access to the interior of the box.

,' From the foregoing it will be seen that I have provided an extremely simple, prac-- its longitudinal edges av series of oblong flanges adapted to be bent to respective overlapping positions at the top and bottom of the box when the sheet is folded to form closures thereof, said sheet being indented at intervals between said flanges to facilitate rounding the longitudinal edges of the box, the whole forming an integral container structure.

2. A cigar box comprising a body consisting of a rectangular sheet having along its longitudinal edges a series of oblong flanges adapted to be bent to respective positions at the top and bottom of the box when the sheet is folded to form the top and bottom closures, said sheet being indented at intervals between said flanges to facilitate rounding the narrow sides of the box, the indents forming tongues adapted to be folded into the planes of the folded top and bottom forming flanges, and sealing pieces conforming to the shape of the box ends and secured on the several folded flanges and tongues.

3. A cigar box comprising a body consisting of a rectangular sheet having along its longitudinal edges a series of oblong flanges adapted to be bent to respective overlapping positions at the top and bottom of the box when the sheet is folded, said sheet being indented at intervals between said flanges to facilitate rounding the narrow sides of the box, and a tubular lining member telescopic in and of a length equal to the height/of the box between the top and bottom.

4- A cigar box comprising a body consisting of a rectangular sheet having along its longitudinal edges a series of flanges adapted to be bent to respective positions at the top and bottom of the box when the sheet is folded to form a bottom and a top integral with the sheet, said sheet being indented at intervals between said flanges to facilitate rounding the narrow sides of the box, and a tubular lining member telescopic in and of a length equal to the height of the box between the top and bottom, the body scored parallel to its top edge along the back portions and slitted in its front to form a hinged cover to close over the upper end of the lining member.

5. .A round-edge box consisting of a body sheet of substantially rectangular form with central elongated flanges and corner flanges on parallel edges, the combined length of the corner flanges on one edge about equaling the length of the adjacent central flanges, the portions of the edges between the flanges being indented to form tongues and to permit bending of the longitudinal corners of the box into curved surfaces.

6. A box consisting of a body sheet of substantially rectangular form with central elongated flanges and corner flanges on parallel edges, the combined length of the corner flanges on one edge about equaling the length of the adjacent central flanges, said flanges having a length greater than one-half the width of the box, the portions of the edges between the flanges being indented to form tongues and to permit bending of the longitudinal corners of the box into curved surfaces.

HENRY LEIMAN. 

